Posted on: 11. Juli 2013
#Echelon #Keywords #Homeland #Security

GCSB (Government Communications Security Bureau) Echelon Station, Whaihopei, New Zealand, -41° 34' 36.00'', +173° 44' 20.00''

Choke them on a flood of keywords


«Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S. The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as 'attack', 'Al Qaeda', 'terrorism' and 'dirty bomb' alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like 'pork', 'cloud', 'team' and 'Mexico'.

Released under a freedom of information request, the information sheds new light on how government analysts are instructed to patrol the internet searching for domestic and external threats. The words are included in the department's 2011 'Analyst's Desktop Binder' used by workers at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify 'media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities'. Department chiefs were forced to release the manual following a House hearing over documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit which revealed how analysts monitor social networks and media organisations for comments that 'reflect adversely' on the government.» – dailymail.co.uk, 26 May 2012

United States Department Of Homeland Security
Download: The Analyst's Desktop Binder


This is a current list of terms that will be used by NOC when monitoring social media sites to provide situational awareness and establish a common picture. As natural or manmade disasters occur, new search terms may be added. The new search terms will not use PII searching for relevant mission-related information. – copy & paste, avoid or flood!

1. Domestic Security
2. Assassination
3. Attack
4. Domestic security
5. Drill
6. Exercise
7. Cops
8. Law enforcement
9. Authorities
10. Disaster assistance
11. Disaster management
12. DNDO (Domestic Nuclear
13. Detection Office)
14. National preparedness
15. Mitigation
16. Prevention
17. Response
18. Recovery
19. Dirty bomb
20. Domestic nuclear detection
21. Emergency management
22. Emergency response
23. First responder
24. Homeland security
25. Maritime domain awareness (MDA)
26. National preparedness
27. initiative
28. Militia
29. Shooting
30. Shots fired
31. Evacuation
32. Deaths
33. Hostage
34. Explosion (explosive)
35. Police
36. Disaster medical assistance team (DMAT)
37. Organized crime
38. Gangs
39. National security
40. State of emergency
41. Security
42. Breach
43. Threat
44. Standoff
45. SWAT
46. Screening
47. Lockdown
48. Bomb (squad or threat)
49. Crash
50. Looting
51. Riot
52. Emergency Landing
53. Pipe bomb
54. Incident
55. Facility
56. HAZMAT & Nuclear
57. Hazmat
58. Nuclear
59. Chemical spill
60. Suspicious package/device
61. Toxic
62. National laboratory
63. Nuclear facility
64. Nuclear threat
65. Cloud
66. Plume
67. Radiation
68. Radioactive
69. Leak
70. Biological infection (or
71. event)
72. Chemical
73. Chemical burn
74. Biological
75. Epidemic
76. Hazardous
77. Hazardous material incident
78. Industrial spill
79. Infection
80. Powder (white)
81. Gas
82. Spillover
83. Anthrax
84. Blister agent
85. Chemical agent
86. Exposure
87. Burn
88. Nerve agent
89. Ricin
90. Sarin
91. North Korea
92. Health Concern + H1N1
93. Outbreak
94. Contamination
95. Exposure
96. Virus
97. Evacuation
98. Bacteria
99. Recall
100. Ebola
101. Food Poisoning
102. Foot and Mouth (FMD)
103. H5N1
104. Avian
105. Flu
106. Salmonella
107. Small Pox
108. Plague
109. Human to human
110. Human to Animal
111. Influenza
112. Center for Disease Control (CDC)
113. Drug Administration (FDA)
114. Public Health
115. Toxic
116. Agro Terror
117. Tuberculosis (TB)
118. Agriculture
119. Listeria
120. Symptoms
121. Mutation
122. Resistant
123. Antiviral
124. Wave
125. Pandemic
126. Infection
127. Water/air borne
128. Sick
129. Swine
130. Pork
131. Strain
132. Quarantine
133. H1N1
134. Vaccine
135. Tamiflu
136. Norvo Virus
137. Epidemic
138. World Health Organization (WHO) (and components)
139. Viral Hemorrhagic Fever E. Coli
140. Infrastructure security
141. Airport
142. Airplane (and derivatives)
143. Chemical fire
144. Electric
145. Failure or outage
146. Black out
147. Brown out
148. Port
149. Dock
150. Bridge
151. Cancelled
152. Delays
153. Service disruption
154. Power lines
155. CIKR (Critical Infrastructure
156. & Key Resources)
157. AMTRAK
158. Collapse
159. Computer infrastructure
160. Communications
161. infrastructure
162. Telecommunications
163. Critical infrastructure
164. National infrastructure
165. Metro
166. WMATA
167. Subway
168. BART
169. MARTA
170. Port Authority
171. NBIC (National
172. Biosurveillance Integration
173. Center)
174. Transportation security
175. Grid
176. Power
177. Smart
178. Body scanner
179. Southwest Border Violence
180. Drug cartel
181. Violence
182. Gang
183. Drug
184. Narcotics
185. Cocaine
186. Marijuana
187. Heroin
188. Border
189. Mexico
190. Cartel
191. Southwest
192. Juarez
193. Sinaloa
194. Tijuana
195. Torreon
196. Yuma
197. Tucson
198. Decapitated
199. U.S. Consulate
200. Consular
201. El Paso
202. Fort Hancock
203. San Diego
204. Ciudad Juarez
205. Nogales
206. Sonora
207. Colombia
208. Mara salvatrucha
209. MS13 or MS-13
210. Drug war
211. Mexican army
212. Methamphetamine
213. Cartel de Golfo
214. Gulf Cartel
215. La Familia
216. Reynosa
217. Nuevo Leon
218. Narcos
219. Narco banners (Spanish
220. equivalents)
221. Los Zetas
222. Shootout
223. Execution
224. Gunfight
225. Trafficking
226. Kidnap
227. Calderon
228. Reyosa
229. Bust
230. Tamaulipas
231. Meth Lab
232. Drug trade
233. Illegal immigrants
234. Smuggling (smugglers)
235. Matamoros
236. Michoacana
237. Guzman
238. Arellano-Felix
239. Beltran-Leyva
240. Barrio Azteca
241. Artistic Assassins
242. Mexicles
243. New Federation
244. Terrorism
245. Al Qaeda (all spellings)
246. Terror
247. Attack
248. Iraq
249. Afghanistan
250. Iran
251. Pakistan
252. Agro
253. Environmental terrorist
254. Eco terrorism
255. Conventional weapon
256. Target
257. Weapons grade
258. Dirty bomb
259. Enriched
260. Nuclear
261. Chemical weapon
262. Biological weapon
263. Ammonium nitrate
264. Improvised explosive device
265. Weather/Disaster/Emergency
266. Emergency
267. Hurricane
268. Tornado
269. Twister
270. Tsunami
271. Earthquake
272. Tremor
273. Flood
274. Storm
275. Crest
276. Temblor
277. Extreme weather
278. Forest fire
279. Brush fire
280. Cyber security
281. Botnet
282. DDOS (dedicated denial of
283. service)
284. Denial of service
285. Malware
286. Virus
287. Trojan
288. Keylogger
289. Cyber Command
290. IED (Improvised Explosive
291. Device)
292. Abu Sayyaf
293. Hamas
294. FARC (Armed Revolutionary
295. Forces Colombia)
296. IRA (Irish Republican Army)
297. ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna)
298. Basque Separatists
299. Hezbollah
300. Tamil Tigers
301. PLF (Palestine Liberation
302. Front)
303. PLO (Palestine Liberation
304. Organization
305. Car bomb
306. Jihad
307. Taliban
308. Weapons cache
309. Suicide bomber
310. Suicide attack
311. Ice
312. Stranded/Stuck
313. Help
314. Hail
315. Wildfire
316. Tsunami Warning Center
317. Magnitude
318. Avalanche
319. Typhoon
320. Shelter-in-place
321. Disaster
322. Snow
323. Blizzard
324. Sleet
325. Cyber Security
326. 2600
327. Spammer
328. Phishing
329. Rootkit
330. Phreaking
331. Cain and abel
332. Brute forcing
333. Mysql injection
334. Cyber attack
335. Cyber terror
336. Suspicious substance
337. AQAP (AL Qaeda Arabian
338. Peninsula)
339. AQIM (Al Qaeda in the
340. Islamic Maghreb)
341. TTP (Tehrik-i-Taliban
342. Pakistan)
343. Yemen
344. Pirates
345. Extremism
346. Somalia
347. Nigeria
348. Radicals
349. Al-Shabaab
350. Home grown
351. Plot
352. Nationalist
353. Recruitment
354. Fundamentalism
355. Islamist
356. Mud slide or Mudslide
357. Erosion
358. Power outage
359. Brown out
360. Warning
361. Watch
362. Lightening
363. Aid
364. Relief
365. Closure
366. Interstate
367. Burst
368. Emergency Broadcast System
369. Hacker
370. China
371. Conficker
372. Worm
373. Scammers
374. Social media